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2000
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You Love More Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
|
The Dreaming
Kate Bush
|
5 | 2.98 | +2.02 |
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The Bones Of What You Believe
CHVRCHES
|
5 | 3.17 | +1.83 |
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Selling England By The Pound
Genesis
|
5 | 3.18 | +1.82 |
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Rock Bottom
Robert Wyatt
|
4 | 2.39 | +1.61 |
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Parklife
Blur
|
5 | 3.39 | +1.61 |
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Locust Abortion Technician
Butthole Surfers
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4 | 2.39 | +1.61 |
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Opus Dei
Laibach
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4 | 2.39 | +1.61 |
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Heaven Or Las Vegas
Cocteau Twins
|
5 | 3.41 | +1.59 |
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...And Justice For All
Metallica
|
5 | 3.42 | +1.58 |
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Amnesiac
Radiohead
|
5 | 3.42 | +1.58 |
You Love Less Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
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On The Beach
Neil Young
|
1 | 3.46 | -2.46 |
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Channel Orange
Frank Ocean
|
1 | 3.34 | -2.34 |
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The Chronic
Dr. Dre
|
1 | 3.31 | -2.31 |
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It's Too Late to Stop Now
Van Morrison
|
1 | 3.25 | -2.25 |
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Dig Your Own Hole
The Chemical Brothers
|
1 | 3.11 | -2.11 |
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Led Zeppelin II
Led Zeppelin
|
2 | 4.1 | -2.1 |
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Street Life
The Crusaders
|
1 | 3.09 | -2.09 |
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Kind Of Blue
Miles Davis
|
2 | 4.05 | -2.05 |
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La Revancha Del Tango
Gotan Project
|
1 | 3.04 | -2.04 |
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Heartbreaker
Ryan Adams
|
1 | 3.02 | -2.02 |
Artists
Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Nirvana | 3 | 4.33 |
| Radiohead | 3 | 4.33 |
| Kate Bush | 3 | 4.33 |
| Metallica | 3 | 4.33 |
Least Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Neil Young | 2 | 1.5 |
| Prince | 3 | 2 |
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Megadeth · 1 likes
3/5
7/10
The music is tight, but the singer sounds like a 16 year old kid. Would have greatly preferred this as an instrumental album.
Highlights:
Hangar 18
Five Magics
Poison was the Cure
4-Star Albums (66)
1-Star Albums (22)
All Ratings
Oasis
3/5
6.5/10 Energetic, dense, predictable
Highlights:
- Rock n Roll Star
- Supersonic
Hole
3/5
7/10 Dynamic, raw, angry
Highlights:
*Violet
*She Walks on Me
Eminem
2/5
4.5/10 Monotonous, disturbing, gratuitous
Highlights:
My Name Is
Nick Drake
2/5
5/10 Sweet, calm, unimportant
Highlights:
- Sunday
Sufjan Stevens
4/5
8.5/10 varied, rich, emotional
Highlights:
John Wayne Gacy Jr.
Chicago
Casimir Pulaski Day
They are Night Zombies
The Seer's Tower
Bob Dylan
3/5
5.5/10 Witty, fast-paced, forgettable
Highlights:
It's Alright, Ma
De La Soul
3/5
6.5/10 Clever, creative, dry
Highlights:
- Transmitting Live from Mars
- Eye Know
- Tread Water
- This is a recording
Elliott Smith
4/5
7.5/10 Warm, comforting, melodic
Highlights:
- Junk Bond Trader
- Stupidity Tries
- Easy Way Out
- Better be Quiet Now
- Can't make a sound
Beck
3/5
6.5/10 Sad, slow, consistent
Higlights:
Paper Tiger
The Flying Burrito Brothers
1/5
3/10 Obnoxious, saccharine, boring
Peter Gabriel
3/5
7/10 Creative, tense, varied
Highlights:
Don't Give Up
Mercy Street
This is the Picture
Van Morrison
1/5
3/10 Boring, long, slow
Hole
3/5
6/10 Urgent, consistent, unremarkable
Highlights:
- Reasons to be Beautiful
Beastie Boys
3/5
5.5/10 Surprising, unintelligible, raw
Highlights:
Sabotage
Eugene's Lament
Flute Loop
5/5
9/10 Energetic, rich, urgent
Highlights:
Knights of Cydonia
Map of the Problematique
Hoodoo
Starlight
Primal Scream
3/5
7/10
Highlights:
Burning Wheel
(Know Your Rights)
Steve Winwood
2/5
5/10
Inoffensive
Highlights:
Night Train
The Doors
3/5
7/10
Highlights:
Break on Through
The Crystal Ship
The End
Gil Scott-Heron
3/5
5.5/10
Highlights:
The Bottle
H2O Blues
Blue Cheer
2/5
5/10
Nice sound, lacking nice songs
Johnny Cash
4/5
7.5/10
Amazing voice
Highlights:
Dark as the Dungeon
Flushed from the bathroom of your heart
Jackson
Arctic Monkeys
4/5
8.5/10
Like every track
Highlights:
The View from the Afternoon
When the Sun Goes Down
Red Light Indicates Doors are Secured
From Ritz to the Rubble
Machito
3/5
5.5/10
Not my thing
The Monks
2/5
5/10
Highlights:
Drunken Maria
Paul McCartney and Wings
4/5
7.5/10
Highlights:
Jet
Mrs Vandebilt
Nineteen hundred and eighty five
Neil Young
1/5
3/10
Unlistenable. Nothing stands out
Eminem
3/5
6/10
Well that was disturbing
A bit too cringy though.
Highlights:
Stan
The Way I Am
The Real Slim Shady
Motörhead
3/5
5.5/10
All songs are the same
Highlights:
Ace of Spades
David Bowie
2/5
5/10
Highlights:
Fascination
Bob Dylan
3/5
5.5/10
Highlights:
Dont Think Twice Its Alright
Talkin World War III Blues
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
3/5
6/10
Very nice background music
Highlights:
Giles Farnaby's Dream
The Sound of Someone...
Pink Floyd
4/5
8/10
Highlights:
Time
Kanye West
2/5
4.5/10 Nice production but over the top obnoxious
Highlights:
So Appalled
Wire
3/5
6/10 Sounds nice but no songs stand out
Massive Attack
2/5
3.5/10 boring, nothing happens
The Doors
3/5
5.5/10
Highlights:
Peace Frog
Waiting for the Sun
Stevie Wonder
3/5
6.5/10
Highlights:
Living for the City
Higher Ground
5/5
9/10
No a lot of spectacle, but there are no bad songs and the album as a whole sounds amazing.
Highlights:
One Tree Hill
I Still Havent Found What Im Looking For
Where the Streets Have no Name
Red Hill Mining Town
Bullet the Blue Sky
TV On The Radio
2/5
5/10
Should be my kind of music but the vocals are meh and already forgot every song. Does feel like it could grow on me if I listened to it again.
Highlights:
Halfway Home
Family Tree
Otis Redding
3/5
6.5/10
Highlights:
A Change is Gonna Come
Respect
Satisfaction
Marianne Faithfull
1/5
2.5/10
Not good at all
Moby
4/5
8.5/10
Highlights:
Natural Blues
Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad
Run On
Honey
Find My Baby
Porcelain
Manu Chao
4/5
7.5/10
Highlights:
Clandestino
Bongo Bong
The Byrds
3/5
5.5/10
Nice harmony, nice sound, but no songs to remember
The Avalanches
4/5
8.5/10
Highlights:
Since I left You
Frontier Psychiatrist
Joan Armatrading
2/5
4/10
Highlights:
Down to Zero
Meat Puppets
2/5
4/10
Songs were ok, but the execution is so poor, especially the singing.
Highlights:
Aurora Borealis
Im a Mindless Idiot
Lake of Fire
Van Halen
2/5
4.5/10
Creedence Clearwater Revival
3/5
5.5/10
highlights:
Before you accuse me
I heard it through the grapevine
Long as I can see the light
Drive Like Jehu
4/5
7.5/10
Highlights:
-Super Unison
Sade
2/5
3.5/10
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
3/5
5.5/10
Highlights:
Cinnamon Girl
Cowgirl in the Sand
The Temptations
2/5
5/10
Highlights:
Papa was a Rolling Stone
Little Simz
2/5
4/10
The Beau Brummels
1/5
3/10
"highlights":
The Wolf of Velvet Fortune
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
3/5
7/10
Highlights:
Souvenir
The New Stone Age
Ryan Adams
1/5
3/10 Why is this on the list?
David Bowie
4/5
8/10
Highlights:
Sound and Vision
Speed of Life
Always Crashing in the Same Car
Thin Lizzy
3/5
5.5/10 Surprisingly ok, though not that interesting.
Highlights:
Johnny the Fox
The Boys are Back in Town
Abdullah Ibrahim
2/5
5/10
Highlights: Manenberg Revisited
Various Artists
2/5
5/10
Highlights:
Sleigh Ride
Super Furry Animals
4/5
8/10
Best discovery so far.
Highlights:
Receptacle for the Respectable
Rings Around the World
A Touch Sensitive
Fragile Happiness
No Sympathy
The White Stripes
3/5
6/10
Kinda disappointing.
Highlights:
Blue Orchid
Mylo
2/5
4.5/10
Curtis Mayfield
3/5
7/10
Highlights:
Freddie's Dead
Little Child Running Wild
Pusherman
Junkie Chase
Booker T. & The MG's
2/5
5/10 Felt like being put on hold for 40 minutes
Highlights:
Comin' Home Baby
Skepta
2/5
3.5/10
Elton John
3/5
6.5/10
Highlights:
Tiny Dancer
Nirvana
4/5
7.5/10
Highlights:
Heart Shaped Box
Dumb
All Apologies
Rape Me
Everything But The Girl
1/5
3/10
The xx
3/5
6/10
Highlights:
Crystalised
Intro
VCR
Infinity
Taylor Swift
3/5
6/10
Starts very strong but the second half isnt quite as exciting. Also the lyrics are meh
Highlights:
Blank Space
Shake it Out
Out of the Woods
4/10
Highlights:
Debris
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
4/5
7.5/10
Highlights:
O Children
Hiding All Away
Nature Boy
The Lyre of Orpheus
Easy Money
Public Enemy
2/5
4.5/10 Yeah boyy?
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
2/5
5/10 The guitars on the first and last tracks nearly saved it, but the singing is just so bad.
Highlights:
Hey Hey, My My
My My, Hey Hey
Mudhoney
2/5
5/10 Unfortunately no song stands out
Keith Jarrett
3/5
6/10
Nice piano music
The Allman Brothers Band
2/5
5/10 Doesn't go anywhere
Big Black
4/5
7.5/10
Surprisingly catchy for how extreme it is.
Higlights:
Kerosene
Guns N' Roses
3/5
7/10 Good but also kinda annoying. Great guitar stuff.
Highlights:
Nightrain
Randy Newman
2/5
4.5/10
Highlights:
Political Science
Wilco
3/5
5.5/10
Highlights:
Radio Cure
Jesus etc
I am trying to break your heart
David Ackles
2/5
5/10
Highlights:
American Gothic
Ballad of the Ship of State
The Doors
2/5
5/10
Highlights:
Love Her Madly
Run-D.M.C.
2/5
5/10
Highlights:
It's Tricky
Peter Piper
You Be Illin
The Charlatans
3/5
5.5/10
Highlights:
With No Shoes
Fatboy Slim
3/5
6.5/10 The hits are great, but the rest was disappointing
Highlights:
Right Here, Right Now
Rockafeller Skank
Praise You
The Divine Comedy
4/5
7.5/10
Highlights:
Through a Long and Sleepless Night
Frog Princess
Charge
Something for the Weekend
Pixies
5/5
9/10
Highlights:
Monkey Gone to Heaven
Gouge Away
Hey
Debaser
Mr Grieves
2/5
4/10
The Dandy Warhols
3/5
5.5/10
Jefferson Airplane
3/5
6/10
Highlights:
White Rabbit
Queen Latifah
3/5
5.5/10
Highlights:
Wrath of my Madness
Princess of the Possee
The Pros
Aphex Twin
2/5
5/10
Simon & Garfunkel
3/5
6/10
Highlights:
Mrs Robinson
America
Hazy Shade of Winter
The Smashing Pumpkins
4/5
8/10
Highlights:
Disarm
Cherub Rock
Soma
Today
Silverfuck
Minor Threat
3/5
6/10
Highlights:
Cashing In
Sob Story
Think Again
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
3/5
5.5/10 There's way too much Neil Young on this list. At least the singing here isn't as bad as some of the others.
Highlights:
Love to Burn
Joy Division
3/5
7/10
Awesome bass. If only Ian Curtis could sing.
Kendrick Lamar
2/5
4.5/10
Highlights:
The Blacker the Berry
King Kunta
Santana
3/5
5.5/10
Highlights:
Samba pa ti
The Smiths
4/5
8.5/10
Highlights:
There is a Light That Never Goes Out
Some Girls Are Better Than Others
The Boy with the Thorn in his Side
The Queen is Dead
Bigmouth Strikes Again
Frankly Mr Shankly
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
3/5
6/10
Highlights:
Almost Cut My Hair
Buddy Holly & The Crickets
2/5
4/10
Gotan Project
1/5
3/10
There is just nothing here. Did not need to here this before I die. Actually, Ive already forgotten it.
Nina Simone
3/5
5.5/10
Amazing performance, but the songs just aren't that interesting to me.
Highlights:
Four Women
Either Way I lose
The Rolling Stones
2/5
5/10
Severely disappointing. Also too long for how little is on here.
Highlights:
Tumbling Dice
Shine a Light
Eagles
2/5
5/10
Highlights:
Hotel California
The Last Resort
Everything in between is dreadful
The Sugarcubes
4/5
8.5/10
Highlights:
Traitor
Deus
Birthday
Motorcrass
Momo
Jack White
3/5
7/10
Highlights:
Hypocritical Kiss
Freedom at 21
I Should go to Sleep
Sixteen Saltines
Lover Interruption
Prince
2/5
4.5/10
Highlight:
Sign o the Times
Willie Colón & Rubén Blades
2/5
5/10
Highlights:
Maria Lionza
Pedro Navaja
Stereolab
3/5
5.5/10
Nirvana
4/5
8/10
Highlights:
Dumb
The Man Who Sold the World
Pennyroyal Tea
All Apologies
Where Did You Sleep Tonight
Plateau
Lake of Fire
Dinosaur Jr.
2/5
5/10
Highlight:
Yeah we know
The Vines
3/5
6/10
Highlights:
Get Free
Country Yard
Sister Sledge
2/5
5/10
Highlights:
We are Family
Hes the Greatest Dancer
Eric Clapton
3/5
5.5/10
Starts of really boring, but weirdly gets better towards the end.
Highlights:
Let it Grow
I Shot the Sheriff
Mainline Florida
Steady Rollin Man
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
3/5
5.5/10
Highlights:
The Message
Scorpio
It's Nasty
Air
4/5
7.5/10
Highlights:
Kelly Watch The Stars
Sexy Boy
Femme d'Argent
Voyage du Penelope
Sisters Of Mercy
4/5
8/10
Love this sound. Didn't know this one before. Great discovery.
Highlights:
This Corrosion
Dominion
Koffi Olomide
1/5
3/10 Every track is the same
Led Zeppelin
2/5
5/10
Steely Dan
2/5
5/10
Arrested Development
3/5
6/10
Highlights:
Mr Wendal
Children Play with Earth
Doves
3/5
7/10
Highlights:
The Man who Told everything
Catch the Sun
Sea Song
Here it Comes
Firesuite
Fiona Apple
3/5
5.5/10
Highlight:
Criminal
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
5.5/10
Highlights:
The Rising
Into the Fire
Weather Report
3/5
6/10
Highlights:
Birdland
Stevie Wonder
2/5
5/10 Some great tracks. Sadly, the rest of it gave me diabetes.
Highlights:
Superstition
Maybe your baby
Frank Sinatra
2/5
4.5/10
Jimmy Smith
2/5
5/10
Robert Wyatt
4/5
8.5/10
Amazing discovery.
Highlights:
Alife
Little Red Riding Hood Hit the Road
Dexys Midnight Runners
2/5
4/10
Terrible
The Rolling Stones
3/5
6/10
Please let me introduce myself... what a way to start an album. Amazing track. Woo Woo! 10/10
The other songs are also on the album
Highlights:
Sympathy for the Devil
Street Fighting Man (best of the rest I guess)
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
6/10
Highlights:
The Factory
Elbow
4/5
8.5/10
Highlights:
One Day Like This
The Fix
The Loneliness of a Tower Crane Driver
Ground for Divorce
Mirrorball
Some Riot
An Audience with the Pope
Tina Turner
3/5
5.5/10
The Help! cover is terrible.
Highlights:
What's Love Got to Do with It
Private Dancer
Laura Nyro
3/5
7/10
Highlights:
Lu
Sweet Blindness
Poverty Train
Stan Getz
2/5
5/10
Donald Fagen
2/5
4/10
zzzzz
Throbbing Gristle
2/5
4/10
Well at least it was interesting. The first tracks were really difficult but after that it became marginally more listenable. As background music it works surprisingly well (sometimes).
Common
2/5
5/10
Pretenders
3/5
5.5/10
Highlights:
Private Life
The Associates
3/5
5.5/10 Promises to be very interesting at times, but then mostly turns out to be annoying.
Highlights:
No
Gloomy Sunday
Nude Spoon
Solange
2/5
5/10
Highlights:
Rise
Weary
Deep Purple
3/5
6.5/10
One of those albums where Im really excited because I know the one track which is a layered masterpiece and I want to hear what else they have to offer but then it turns out everything else is just pointless and uninteresting.
Highlight:
Child in Time
Best of the rest:
Flight of the Rat
Stevie Wonder
3/5
6.5/10
Not really for me, but it's a good album
Highlights:
Sir Duke
As
Black Man
Pastime Paradise
Depeche Mode
3/5
6.5/10
Great sound, but not enough great songs.
Highlights:
Never Let me Down Again
Behind the Wheel
Strangelove
CHIC
3/5
5.5/10
Highlight:
Le Freak
Gillian Welch
2/5
5/10
Starts of ok, but just gets slower and slower and is way too long.
Radiohead
5/5
9/10 Moody, sad, but also very pretty. Even without being as exciting as OK Computer still a near perfect collection of songs.
Highlights:
Street Spirit
Fake Plastic Trees
Just
Sulk
Nice Dream
Planet Telex
My Iron Lung
The Bends
New Order
3/5
6/10
Sam Cooke
3/5
6/10
Highlights:
Chain Gang
Terence Trent D'Arby
2/5
3.5/10
Louis Prima
3/5
5.5/10
Highlights:
The Lip
Prince
2/5
4.5/10 First half ok. Second half terrible and way too long
Highlight:
Little Red Corvette
George Harrison
3/5
6/10 Too long. Waaaayyy toooo looonng. Just finished and I can already barely remembered when I started listening.
Highlight:
Art of Dying
Kate Bush
5/5
9/10. Completely bonkers. Haven't heard anything like it before, not even from Kate Bush herself. I love it. Great opening track which immediately got me excited followed by two more bangers. After that it sometimes becomes a bit too slow or weird but it's all just too charming to fault it for that.
Highlights:
Pull out the Pin
There Goes a Tenner
Sat in Your Lap
Night of the Swallow
Get out of My House
All the Love
Suspended in Gaffa
Nanci Griffith
2/5
5/10
The United States Of America
2/5
5/10 Interesting, but not particularly pretty.
As if you took a Jefferson Airplane album and then randomly reshuffled all the notes.
Highlights:
The Garden of Earthly Delights
The American Way of Love
N.W.A.
2/5
5/10 Music listenable but repetitive. Lyrics are mostly problematic. Not for me.
Highlight: F tha Police
The Pogues
2/5
5/10
Sonic Youth
3/5
5.5/10
Deep Purple
3/5
6.5/10
Highlights:
When a Blind Man Cries
Lazy
Smoke on the Water
Highway Star
Dagmar Krause
3/5
5.5/10
Quicksilver Messenger Service
2/5
5/10
A Tribe Called Quest
2/5
5/10
Dead Kennedys
3/5
6.5/10
Highlights:
Holiday in Cambodia
California über Alles
Let's Lynch the Landlord
Kill the Poor
Prince
2/5
5/10 Too much nonsense
Pixies
3/5
7/10
Highlights:
River Euphrates
Gigantic
Break My Bones
Where is My Mind
Bone Machine
Meat Loaf
3/5
6/10
Highlights:
Title track
Paradise by the Dashboard Lights
Beyoncé
3/5
5.5/10
Highlights:
Pretty Hurts
XO
Ray Charles
2/5
4/10
Next album on my list is called It's A Shame About Ray. Seems appropriate somehow...
The Lemonheads
2/5
5/10 Does not deserve to be on the list. Boring.
Love
3/5
5.5/10
Highlights:
Revelation
Fatboy Slim
2/5
4.5/10
Paul Simon
2/5
5/10 The vocals are surprisingly poor.
Highlight:
You can call me Al
3/5
5.5/10
Silver Jews
2/5
5/10
Do not like the vocals
Led Zeppelin
3/5
6/10
Highlights:
Immigrant Song
Since I've Been Loving You
Tangerine
Friends
Billie Holiday
3/5
5.5/10
Gorillaz
4/5
7.5/10 A large variety of good ideas, but turning these ideas into coherent songs is something Gorillaz did much better on the albums that were about to follow. Shame these aren't in the list :(
Highlights:
Sound Check
Clint Eastwood
19-2000
M1A1 (should have been the opener)
Tomorrow Comes Today
Lambchop
3/5
5.5/10
Feels like the kind of album I would hate, but I don't. It's pleasant enough and goes in all kinds of directions that aren't quite as boring as the mellow sounds and raspy vocals would suggest.
Highlights:
Petrified Florist
Butcher Boy
The Old Gold Shoe
Dire Straits
3/5
7/10
Really unfortunate Love over Gold and Making Movies aren't on the list. This is not the best Dire Straits album. Other than the two highlights the songs are just still kinda bland. Amazing guitar playing of course.
Highlights:
Sultans of Swing
Down to the Waterline
Brian Eno
3/5
6/10
Different and not unpleasant to listen to, but very little emotional connection or meaning.
Highlights:
America is Waiting
The Jezebel Spirit
Underworld
2/5
5/10
Jungle Brothers
2/5
5/10
Like the positive vibes, but don't really care for the music or any of the songs.
fIREHOSE
3/5
5.5/10
Highlights:
Time With You
Marvin Gaye
3/5
6/10
MGMT
3/5
7/10
Highlights:
Kids
Time to Pretend
The Youth
Bert Jansch
2/5
5/10
Arcade Fire
4/5
8/10 I guess they never heard the phrase less is more. The album is simply too long with too many songs being nice but non essential. Some great tracks near the beginning and end though.
Highlights:
We Used to Wait
Sprawl II
The Suburbs
Ready to Start
Modern Man
Deep Blue
Half Life I
Johnny Cash
4/5
7.5/10 Kinda hard to judge. As a collection of songs this wouldn't be worth four stars, but the interaction with the audience and Cash showing his skill as an entertainer elevate it to a different level.
Highlights:
A Boy Named Sue
Peace in the Valley
Hawkwind
3/5
6/10
What is the point of a live album being on this list if you can barely notice it's live... Feels like a sneaky way to get a compilation album on here, so basically cheating. (Although nobody could accuse this of being a "greatest hits" album)
A lot going on but it's too much to keep track of and I already forgot most of it. Really it's just waaaaay too long. I can imagine I might appreciate it more if I listened to it a couple times, but who has time for that?
The Last Shadow Puppets
3/5
7/10
Highlights:
My Mistakes Were Made For You
The Age of the Understatement
U2
3/5
6.5/10 With two exceptions the songs aren't quite there yet.
Highlights:
Sunday Bloody Sunday
New Year's Day
Blondie
3/5
7/10
Highlights:
Hanging on the Telephone
Sunday Girl
One Way or Another
Just Go Away
11:59
Heart of Glass
Method Man
1/5
2/10
Monotonous
The Afghan Whigs
3/5
6/10
Highlights:
Brother Woodrow
Debonair
My Curse
R.E.M.
4/5
7.5/10 Not a big R.E.M. fan but this positively surprised me. Consistently good and interesting. Not nearly as pointlessly.meandering as I expected.
Highlights:
Oddfellow Local 151
The One I Love
It's the End of the World
Exhuming McCarthy
Lightnin Hopkins
Johnny Cash
3/5
5.5/10
Highlights:
Hurt
Desperado
Personal Jesus
The Man Comes Around
Aretha Franklin
4/5
7.5/10
Highlights:
Money Won't Change You
Natural Woman
Chain of Fools
Niki Hoeky
Radiohead
3/5
7/10
Highlights:
Everything in its right place
Optimistic
Idioteque
Morning Bell
Motion Picture Soundtrack
Adele
3/5
6/10 The amount of hits on one album is impressive, but it does get stale quickly.
Highlights:
Set Fire to the Rain
Rolling in the Deep
Rumour has It
Lovesong (The original is better though)
Jacques Brel
3/5
7/10
Highlights:
Amsterdam
Plat Pays
Ali Farka Touré
2/5
4/10
Willie Nelson
2/5
5/10
The Blue Nile
2/5
5/10
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3/5
7/10
Ridiculous album. Mostly its just a monotonous listing of various people being killed, often for no appararent reason, with occasional touches of sexual violence for extra shock value. At the same time there is something intriguing about the relentless commitment to the theme. The instrumentation is quite enjoyable despite being somewhat repetitive. Personally I suspect death actually is the end. Not sure if that makes this album better or worse.
Highlights:
Where the Wild Roses Grow
Song of Joy
Lovely Creature
Death is not the End
Crow Jane
Henry Lee
Iron Maiden
4/5
8/10
Highlights:
Hallowed be thy Name
Run to the Hills
Children of the Damned
The Number of the Beast
The Zutons
2/5
5/10 Aggressively boring
Cyndi Lauper
3/5
6/10 This is very stupid, and probably deliberately so, but it's just too catchy to hate it.
Blur
5/5
9/10 Mostly very fun and cheeky but then suddenly its earnest and heartbreaking. Very diverse musically.
Highlights:
This is A Low
End of a Century
Parklife
Jubilee
Magic America
Trouble in the Message Centre
Girls & Boys
Clover Over Dover
Fugees
3/5
7/10
Highlights:
Ready or Not
Family Business
How Many Mics
The Mask
Zealots
Kate Bush
4/5
7.5/10
Highlights:
This Woman's Work
Deeper Understanding
Love and Anger
Franz Ferdinand
3/5
6/10
Highlights:
Take Me Out
Jaqueline
This Fire
Auf Achse
40'
Christine and the Queens
2/5
French version 5/10
English version 4.5/10
The B-52's
3/5
6/10
Highlights:
Rock Lobster
Planet Claire
Lloyd Cole And The Commotions
2/5
4.5/10
The White Stripes
4/5
7.5/10
Highlights:
Seven Nation Army
The Hardest Button to Button
It's True That We Love One Another
Little Acorns
There's No Home for You Here
The Air Near My Fingers
The Chemical Brothers
1/5
2.5/10
Nope nope nope nope nope nope nope
OutKast
3/5
6/10
Too long. No shortage of ideas at least. Speakerboxx was easily the more interesting half, despite Hey Ya.
Highlights:
Hey Ya
Roses
Unhappy
GhettoMusick
Church
The Only Ones
3/5
5.5/10 Could have been good if they had a better singer.
Highlights:
Another Girl, Another Planet
Creature of Doom
Peter and the Pets
3/5
6.5/10
Highlights:
We're Desperate
Adult Books
Iggy Pop
3/5
6/10
Highlights:
The Passenger
Lust for Life
Alice In Chains
3/5
7/10
Consistent, great listen, but missing stand out songs.
Highlights:
Them Bones
Would
Sickman
Rooster
Fleet Foxes
3/5
7/10
Highlights:
He Doesnt Know Why
Ragged Wood
White Winter Hymnal
Your Protector
Cowboy Junkies
2/5
5/10
The Undertones
3/5
5.5/10
Highlights:
See that Girl
Carole King
3/5
6/10
Highlights:
Tapestry
I Feel the Earth Move
Smackwater Jack
Les Rythmes Digitales
3/5
5.5/10
Dont really think this needs to be on the list but I enjoyed listening to some of the tracks.
Highlights:
Brothers
Hypnotise
Soft Machine
Steely Dan
3/5
5.5/10
Inoffensive and not particularly exciting, but the execution is very good I suppose.
Highlights
Barrytown
John Lennon
3/5
6.5/10
Highlights:
How do You Sleep
Imagine
Gimme Some Truth
Cream
3/5
5.5/10
Highlights:
SWLABR
Sunshine of your Love
Kate Bush
4/5
8.5/10 No artist sounds like Kate Bush and yet you get the impression she's not too bothered with sounding unique but just with making whatever music she wants to make. Really like the frantic percussion. In combination with Bush's voice it creates such a massive sound. Amazing
Highlights:
The Big Sky
Running up that Hill
Cloudbusting
Hounds of Love
Hello Earth
Leonard Cohen
4/5
8/10
Highlights:
You Want it Darker
Seemed the better way
Steer your way
Treaty
Gram Parsons
1/5
3/10
The Kinks
3/5
7/10
Highlights:
The Village Green Preservation Society
People Take Picture of Each Others
Animal Farm
Picture Book
Do You Remember Walter
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
3/5
6/10 Interesting, but not always pleasant.
Highlights:
Electricity
Bob Marley & The Wailers
3/5
6/10 Solid. Very strong songwriting, but musically maybe not that interesting.
Highlights:
Them Belly Full
No Woman No Cry
So Jah S'eh
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
4/5
8/10
Highlights:
Brother my Cup is Empty
Papa Wont Leave You Henry
I had a Dream Joe
Straight to You
Slipknot
4/5
7.5/10
As subtle as a ton of bricks. Maybe objectively doesn't deserve four stars, because there are much better metal picks, with fewer clichés and less whining. It's way too long. But I really needed this at the moment. I want to give four stars, so I will.
Highlights:
Psychosocial
execute
All Hope is gone
Sulfur
Dead Memories
Rufus Wainwright
2/5
3.5/10 I normally like this kind of music, but here I really didn't. Very hard to get through.
Deee-Lite
3/5
5.5/10 Nothing too inspiring, but somewhat annoyingly I didn't dislike it as much as I wanted to.
Highlights:
Good Beat
Deep Ending
Groove is in the Heart
Randy Newman
3/5
5.5/10
Highlight:
Rednecks
Talking Heads
3/5
5.5/10
Highlight:
Psycho Killer
Best of the rest:
Uh-Oh, Love Comes to Town
Astor Piazzolla
2/5
5/10
I was getting worried I would have to give this a 1, while this is not the kind of album I want to give a 1 to. Thankfully, it got considerably more engaging in the second half. Farfetched maybe, but Laura's Dream vaguely reminds me of Paranoid Android.
Highlights:
Nueva Tango
Laura's Dream
Scritti Politti
1/5
3/10 This album sounds like it was designed to annoy me.
Sigur Rós
4/5
7.5/10
Can be a somewhat difficult listen at points, but eventually the beauty reveals itself.
Highlights:
Starálfur
Viðrar vel til loftárása
Hjartað hamast (bamm bamm bamm)
Flugufrelsarinn
Olsen Olsen
Svefn-g-englar
Willie Nelson
3/5
5.5/10 Not entirely sure why I needed to head a bunch of covers of worn out songs before I die, but the quality is there I suppose.
Highlights:
All of Me
Blue Skies
The Pretty Things
3/5
6/10
Probably need to listen to this many more times to fully appreciate it. Unfortunately thats not likely to happen.
Highlights:
Trust
Joe Ely
2/5
3.5/10
Miles Davis
2/5
4.5/10
Doesn't evoke any emotion whatsoever.
Jeff Buckley
3/5
7/10
Highlights:
Eternal Life
Grace
Dream Brother
Hallelujah
Joni Mitchell
2/5
4/10 I liked the first song and Im pretty sure theres some good lyricism on the album, but the songs are soo boring and the more it dragged on the more I wanted it to stop. No matter how good an album is in theory, if I spent half of it looking at the time wishing for it to end thats just not a good sign.
Highlights:
Coyote
The Kinks
3/5
7/10
I mostly listen for the music and not the lyrics. Thats why this gets only a high 3, because the lyricism is excellent. The production is just a bit dated and maybe not as inventive as certain contemporaries.
Highlights:
Waterloo Sunset
Two Sisters
Harry Rag
Situation Vacant
Afternoon Tea
Nick Drake
3/5
6.5/10
Count Basie & His Orchestra
2/5
5/10
Im sure its good. I just failed to enjoy it
Highlights:
Double O
Splanky
Genesis
5/5
9/10
Highlights:
The Battle of Epping Forest
Dancing with the Moonlit Knight
The Cinema Show
Firth of Fifth
Aisle of Plenty
PJ Harvey
3/5
6.5/10
Highlights:
Man-Size
Me-Jane
Rid of Me
Legs
The Offspring
3/5
6/10
Highlights:
Self Esteem
Come Out and Play
Genocide
Smash (despite there annoyingly being no version on spotify thats just the song itself)
Wu-Tang Clan
2/5
5/10
Highlight:
C.R.E.A.M.
The Killers
4/5
7.5/10
Didn't quite like this as much as I thought it would, given I already knew it front to back. Maybe it's the production which can be quite ugly at times. Not sure. Either way, the first half has too many bangers to give 3 stars. Shame the best Killers song is the first song on the first album and then it all went downward from there.
Highlights:
Jenny Was a Friend of Mine
Mr. Brightside
Smile Like You Mean It
Change Your Mind
Somebody Told Me
3/5
5.5/10 I know its terrible, but I enjoyed it anyway. At least the first half. It should have stopped after Take a Look Around
Highlights:
My Way
Rollin (Air Raid Vehicle)
Madonna
2/5
3.5/10
ABBA
2/5
5/10
Money Money Money nearly saved it, but the irritation factor and the terrible lyrics were just too much.
Highlight:
Money Money Money
The Who
3/5
7/10
Highlights:
Won't Get Fooled Again
Baba O'Riley
My Wife
Getting in Tune
Talking Heads
4/5
7.5/10
Cold take: Although interesting (and sometimes plain weird), the album versions of some of these songs simply dont compare to certain recorded live performances. Stop Making Sense not being on the list is a crime. This feels more like an intellectual excercise than being actually emotionally engaging.
Highlights:
Once in a Lifetime
Crosseyes and Painless
Listening Wind
The Great Curve
Jorge Ben Jor
3/5
6/10
Highlights:
Ponta de Lança Africano
África Brasil
Tears For Fears
3/5
5.5/10
Yes to the hits. No to everything else
Highlights:
Shout
Everybody Wants to Rule the World
The Beach Boys
3/5
6.5/10 Not at all what I was expecting
Higlights:
Surf's Up
Day in the Life of a Tree
Long Promised Road
Looking At Tomorrow
Janis Joplin
3/5
7/10
Amazing voice. Pleasant listen. Missing stand out songs.
Highlights:
Mercedes Benz
Cry Baby
Move On
Me and Bobby McGee
Traffic
3/5
5.5/10
Highlights:
No Time to Live
You Can All Join In
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
3/5
5.5/10
Highlight:
Haq Ali Ali Haq
Beatles
3/5
7/10
Theres definitely a high 4* album hidden in here somewhere, but nobody should be allowed to get away with Piggies, Rocky Raccoon, Dont Pass me By and Why Don't we Do it on the Road as consecutive songs, not even The Beatles.
Highlights:
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Helter Skelter
Back in the USSR
Revolution 1
Happiness is a Warm Gun
Blackbird
Mother Nature's Son
Also heres my submission for the global 'edit the White Album tracklist to make a coherent record' competition:
1. Back in the USSR
2. Glass Onion
3. Blackbird
4. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
5. Sexy Sadie
6. Mother Nature's Son
7. Savoy Truffle
8. I'm so Tired
9. Happiness is a Warm Gun
10. Long Long Long
11. Revolution 1
12. Revolution 9
13. Good Night
14. Helter Skelter
Cheap Trick
2/5
5/10
LCD Soundsystem
3/5
6/10
The Specials
3/5
6/10
Highlights:
A Message to you Rudy
Concrete Jungle
Stupid Marriage
3/5
6.5/10
Highlights:
Five Years
Starman
Rock n Roll Suicide
Green Day
4/5
8.5/10
The least punk punk-album ever, but that's a good thing because I like music thats ambitious and well produced. Ive listened to this so many times when I was in highschool. I thought maybe Id grown past it but I really enjoyed it again and the story evoked some emotions in me as well.
Mike Oldfield
3/5
6.5/10
This is without a doubt an album containing music.
Highlights:
Tubular Bells Pt.I
Tubular Bells Pt.II
Rush
4/5
8.5/10 Mesmerizing basslines make for a very pleasant listening experience. There is not a single bad track on here.Whats missing for me is a song thats truly exciting or evocative beyond just sounding good. If Subdivisions or Marathon had been on here it would have been an easy 5. Now its a very high 4.
Highlights:
Tom Sawyer
The Camera Eye
YYZ
Limelight
Witch Hunt
The Cramps
2/5
5/10
Miles Davis
3/5
5.5/10
Considerably more enjoyable than Kind of Blue, but still this is just really not my cup of tea. As background music its fine.
The Cure
4/5
8.5/10
Highlights:
One Hundred Years
The Figurehead
A Strange Day
Cold
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
2/5
5/10 Is this really the only Tom Petty album on the list?? Because I know he has a couple of good songs, but they sure werent on here.
Luna and Fooled Again were fine I suppose
The White Stripes
3/5
6/10
Highlights:
Fell in a Love with a Girl
Offend in Every Way
I Think I Smell a Rat
The Same Boy Youve Always Know
We're Going to be Friends
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
3/5
5.5/10
Highlight:
Take Five
Red Hot Chili Peppers
2/5
5/10
Highlights:
Under the Bridge
Give it Away
Elis Regina
3/5
5.5/10
Some exciting tracks, some not so much
Highlights:
O Trem Azul
Saudade Eterna
Aprendedendo A Jogar
O Medo de Amar E O Medo De Ser Livre
Venom
3/5
6/10
Highlights:
Raise the Dead
Countess Bathory
Nitin Sawhney
3/5
6/10
Ah, so this is what inspired the Weird Al Yoda chant!
Anyway, it wasnt really my cup of tea, but it was interesting and varied
Highlight: Homelands
Muddy Waters
3/5
6/10
Rage Against The Machine
3/5
7/10
Highlights:
Killing in the Name
Take the Power Back
Bullet in your Head
Elvis Costello
3/5
6/10 Enjoyable if not particularly exciting
Highlights:
Less than Zero
Im not Angry
Miracle Dance
Watching the Detectives
Jimi Hendrix
3/5
7/10
Highlights:
Little Wing
Spanish Castle Magic
Bold as Love
Castles Made of Sand
Joanna Newsom
3/5
6/10
Highlights:
Emily
The Fall
4/5
7.5/10 Liked this a lot better than I expected. It may be a bit rough, but still sounds pretty good.
Highlights:
Futures and Pasts
Music Scene
Frightened
Rebellious Jukebox
No XMas for John Quays
The Divine Comedy
3/5
7/10 The lyrics are laying it on a bit too thick, but Im a sucker for dramatic music.
Highlight:
In Pursuit of Happiness
Someone
Nirvana
5/5
9/10 Expected to give 4 starts, but after several relistens I can't find there being any flaws. There are no skippable tracks, it's just banger after banger. I don't buy this is the album that changed music or whatever. Pixies were doing it first anyway. But I do understand why this of all grunge albums is the one that became so popular.
Highlights:
All tracks (except Endless, Nameless)
The Jesus And Mary Chain
3/5
6/10
Evokes no emotion.
Neil Young
2/5
5/10
Dude can't sing
Alanis Morissette
2/5
5/10 Dated and whiny. Forgiven almost saves it, but one really good track isn't enough to get over the annoying ones. And no, that's not in any way ironic.
Highlight:
Forgiven
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
2/5
5/10
Beck
3/5
6/10
Fela Kuti
3/5
5.5/10
Thelonious Monk
2/5
5/10
J A Z Z
k.d. lang
2/5
4/10
Boring. Constant craving was ok I guess.
Bob Dylan
3/5
7/10
Highlights:
Ballad of a Thin Man
Like a Rolling Stone
Tombstone Blues
Desolation Row
Metallica
5/5
9/10
Climate disaster, corruption, class justice, lies, domestic abuse, religious indocrination, hypocrisy. Perfect album for the Trump era.
The pretty melodic bits really stand out nicely agains the relentless guitar chugging that drives most of the album.
Highlights:
And Justice for All
Blackened
One
Harvester of Sorrow
Belle & Sebastian
3/5
5.5/10
Highlights:
Get me Away from Here Im Dying
Me and the Major
Black Sabbath
4/5
8.5/10
Highlights:
War Pigs
Paranoid
Iron Man
Electric Funeral
Basement Jaxx
2/5
5/10
Highlight:
Rendez-Vu
Sidenote: there are quite a number of inconsequential EDM albums on the list, all of them from England...
Snoop Dogg
2/5
5/10 Nice beats. Gross lyrics
Ian Dury
2/5
5/10 Was this any good? No. Did I enjoy it? Yeah, sort of, maybe.
Highlight:
Blockheads
Frank Ocean
1/5
2.5/10
I hate this
Marvin Gaye
3/5
6.5/10
Highlights:
Mercy Mercy Me
Whats Going On
Inner City Blues
Animal Collective
3/5
6/10
Highlights:
In the Flowers
Morrissey
3/5
6/10 Works quite well as a self-parody album.
Highlights:
I Have Forgiven Jesus
First of the Gang to Die
My Bloody Valentine
2/5
5/10 It interested me, but I didn't enjoy it. Main weakness are the vocals.
The Cure
4/5
7.5/10 Love the mood of the album. The intro is very promising, but the songs arent really there until A Forest, which just happens to be one of the best songs ever written. The final three songs are quite decent, but still not nearly as interesting.
Highlights:
A Forest
Seventeen Seconds
M
Michael Kiwanuka
3/5
6.5/10
Buffalo Springfield
2/5
4.5/10
Expecting to Fly was ok
Beatles
3/5
6/10
You can hear their talent for songwriting even if the result isnt quite as timeless as their later work
Highlight:
It Wont be Long
Brian Eno
3/5
7/10
Highlights:
In Dark Trees
Sky Saw
Spirits Drifting
The Good, The Bad & The Queen
3/5
6.5/10 As a big Blur/Gorillaz fan Albarns voice feels comfortably familiar. The arrangement are very nice. However, the songs are not particularly memorable unfortunately. Still enjoyed listening, but hard to see myself putting this on in the future cause theres nothing particular drawing me to it.
Highlights:
Kingdom of Doom
History Song
Nature Springs
Herculean
The Good, the Bad and the Queen
Northern Whale
Sly & The Family Stone
3/5
5.5/10
Jurassic 5
3/5
5.5/10
Highlight:
Thin Line
Jamiroquai
3/5
6.5/10 I enjoyed this. Bass playing was good.
Highlights:
Music of the Mind
When You Gonna Learn
Caetano Veloso
2/5
4/10
The Smiths
4/5
8/10 This is almost as good as The Queen is Dead. Towards the end it loses a bit of excitement but the first half is banger after banger.
Highlights:
Girlfriend in a Coma
A Rush and a Push
Stop Me if You Think Youve Heard This One Before
Last Night I Dreamt
I Started Something..
Alice Cooper
3/5
5.5/10 Not what I was expecting. Not really sure what to think of this. Don't like the vocals.
Highlight:
School's Out
The Thrills
3/5
5.5/10
John Lee Hooker
2/5
5/10 Its a bit pointless isnt it? Not going anywhere. None of the songs feel like they were planned in advance before recording. Im sure hes talented and it was a pleasant listening experience, but you could skip any track and you wouldnt miss anything important.
Coldplay
4/5
8.5/10
I don't trust anyone who actively hates Coldplay. I get if you don't care for them, but hating them? I'm just gonna assume you're desperately trying to be cool. No integrity.
Anyway, the album is very pretty. Well produced. Nice soundscapes. Especially love the guitar sound. Nearly every song is catchy in a way, although I think Coldplay's songwriting improved with their second album.
Highlights:
Don't Panic
Spies
Trouble
Everything's Not Lost
We Never Change
The Verve
3/5
7/10
Highlights:
Bittersweet Symphony
The Drugs Don't Work
Lucky Man
Catching the Butterfly
Sonnet
Velvet Morning
Ash
3/5
6.5/10
Highlights:
Lose Control
Goldfinger
Id Give You Anything
Darkside Lightside
Innocent Smile
Black Sabbath
3/5
7/10
Highlight:
Black Sabbath
The Band
3/5
6.5/10
Highlight:
The Weight
Suede
2/5
5/10 Want to like this but it just gets exhausting after a while. 45 mins of Suede is too much, sry.
Highlights:
Animal Nitrate
So Young
Air
3/5
6/10
Nice but not too memorable. Also the random monologue was a bit offputting (havent seen the movie so no idea about the context)
Talking Heads
4/5
7.5/10 *Obligatory comment about Stop Making Sense*
Highlights:
Cities
Heaven
Life During Wartime
Animals
Electric Guitar
Donovan
2/5
5/10 Like the arrangements, but the songwriting is meh.
Led Zeppelin
4/5
7.5/10
Highlights:
Stairway
When the Levee Breaks
Rock and Roll
Frank Zappa
3/5
6.5/10
Highlights:
Peaches En Regalia
Sinead O'Connor
3/5
6/10
Highlights:
Nothing Compares 2U
Jump in the River
Black Boys on Mopeds
Badly Drawn Boy
3/5
5.5/10
5/10
I like U2, but this was uniquely uninspired.
Highlight:
Beautiful Day
R.E.M.
3/5
7/10 Super consistent, but lacking real excitement. Every song is at least decent.
Highlights:
World Leader Pretend
Stand
Orange Crush
Pop Song 89
I Remember California
The The
2/5
5/10
Highlight:
Uncertain Smile (the piano bit)
Tricky
2/5
4.5/10
Red Hot Chili Peppers
4/5
7.5/10 Yeah, the lyrics are cringe (esp if you know a bit more about Kiedis) and RHCP are way too overrated among a certain demographic, but there are just too many bangers on here. Very nice melodies.
Highlights:
Otherside
Road Trippin
Scar Tissue
Californication
Parallel Universe
Right on Time
Stevie Wonder
3/5
5.5/10 The sugary vocals and lyrics aren't really for me, but hard to argue with the funky music.
Highlight:
Boogie On Reggae Woman
Butthole Surfers
4/5
7.5/10 Weirdly enjoyable
Highlights:
22 going on 23
Human Cannonball
Sweat Loaf
Graveyard
Kuntz
Finley Quaye
2/5
3.5/10
Wasn't quite prepared for how bad this was. Low 2, just because at least it was varied.
Metallica
4/5
7.5/10
Highlights:
The Unforgiven
Wherever I May Roam
Enter Sandman
Sad But True
My Friend of Misery
Eels
4/5
8.5 Gorgeous album. There is a certain lullaby quality to many of the songs. No skips.
Highlights:
Novocaine for the Soul
Susans House
Rags to Rags
Not Ready Yet
Beautiful Freak
Flower
Mental
The Rolling Stones
3/5
6.5 Solid album. A couple of weak tracks weigh it down.
Highlights:
Wild Horses
Sister Morphine
Moonlight Mile
Brown Sugar
B
Metallica
4/5
8.5/10
Highlights:
Master of Puppets
Sanitarium
Orion
Battery
Fleetwood Mac
3/5
5.5/10 It's not even that weird. Just long and incoherent. It sounds unfinished. There are a couple of good moments though. Three stars because I suspect a deeper dive would find even more good moments.
Highlights:
Tusk
Sisters of the Moon
Sara
TLC
2/5
5/10
Not for me.
AC/DC
3/5
6.5/10
Highlights:
Touch too much
Highway to Hell
The Rolling Stones
3/5
5.5/10
Highlight:
Paint it Black
Soundgarden
3/5
7/10 I should like this, but too many songs didn't really connect. Also it's too long.
Highlights:
Black Hole Sun
Fell On Black Days
Head Down
The War On Drugs
3/5
6/10
Highlights:
Red Eyes
An Ocean In Between the Waves
Eyes to the Wind
Pavement
3/5
6/10
Highlights:
Range Life
Fillmore Jive
Stop Breathing
Silence Kid
SAULT
3/5
6/10
David Bowie
4/5
7.5/10 Bowie is quite talented isnt he? This isnt his best album or his most innovative or his most popular. My initial reaction was 'why is this on the list??', but somehow he almost effortlessly pulls out yet another strong collection of songs.
Highlights:
Love Is Lost
The Next Day
Hoe Does the Grass Grow
The Stars
Dirty Boys
You Feel so Lonely You Could Die
N.E.R.D
3/5
6/10 meh lyrics but good vocals and interesting instrumentals
Highlights:
Fly or Die
She Wants to Move
Drill Sergeant
Jump
Pentangle
2/5
5/10
The Clash
4/5
7.5/10
Highlights:
London Calling
The Guns of Brixton
Lost in the Supermarket
The Card Cheat
Brand New Cadillac
Spanish Bombs
Wrong 'Em Boyo
Dusty Springfield
3/5
6/10 Not really for me
Highlights:
The Windmills of your Mind
Son of a Preacher Man
The Notorious B.I.G.
2/5
3.5/10
Funkadelic
3/5
6.5/10 Enjoyable
Highlights:
Maggot Brain
Can You Get to That
Madness
3/5
7/10 There are probably better Madness picks. This one has some bangers but also quite a few duds.
Highlights:
Our House
Tomorrow's
Rise And Fall
Blue Skinned Beast
Laibach
4/5
7.5/10
Highlights:
Opus Dei
F.I.A.T.
The Great Seal
Geburt Einer Nation
Kanye West
3/5
5.5/10
Highlight:
Never Let Me Down
The Who
3/5
6/10 Can't think of any justification for why this should be on the list. It was alright.
Highlights:
Magic Bus
A Quick One, While He's Away
Tattoo
My Generation
Janet Jackson
2/5
5/10 Enjoyed the synth bass on the first couple of tracks but then it became stale very quickly.
Highlights:
State of the World
Miss You Much
Moby Grape
3/5
6/10
Pretty good, but nothing particularly memorable
Highlight: Hey Grandma
Sonic Youth
3/5
7/10 Nice, but there werent really any songs that stand out for me.
Highlights:
The Wonder
Teen Age Riot
The Sprawl
Kissability
Devendra Banhart
1/5
3/10
Guess I was in a bad mood today, otherwise might have gotten a 2, but I just have no time for this pretentious bullshit atm. The quiver in his voice... I just cant.
The Mothers Of Invention
2/5
4.5/10 I generally approve of albums that are a little offbeat, but this just tried way too hard to be funny without offering much else. And it wasn't that funny.
I'm sure there are interesting ideas on it.
John Coltrane
3/5
5.5/10
Sebadoh
2/5
5/10
Marty Robbins
3/5
6/10
It's different at least. Boring, but different
Highlights:
El Paso
Big Iron
The Jam
3/5
5.5/10
Missing good songs tbh.
Highlights:
David Watts
All Mod Cons
Bob Marley & The Wailers
3/5
6/10
Highlights:
Exodus
The Heathen
Three Little Birds
Jamming
Guiltiness
Billy Bragg
2/5
5/10
Goldfrapp
3/5
6/10
Nice enough, but not really adding anything special.
Highlights:
Some People
Happiness
Caravan Girl
Yes
3/5
5.5/10 Out of Rush, Pink Floyd, Genesis and this band, Yes are by far my least favourite. Lots of talent, but no emotions, no hooks, no fun and just not an overall pleasant listening experience. (Also the singer doesn't help). It's good but I didnt like it.
The Damned
4/5
8.5/10 This is very good. Why have I never heard ot it. It's as if the Sex Pistols had actual musical talent.
Highlights:
I Just Cant Be Happy Today
Plan 9 Channel 7
Love Song
Melody Lee
Smash It Up
Anti-Pope
Fats Domino
3/5
6/10
I can absolutely see why this would have been considered a major hit at the time.
Highlight:
Blueberry Hill
Alice Cooper
3/5
6.5/10
Highlights:
Elected
Unfinished Sweet
No More Mr Nice Guy
ZZ Top
3/5
6/10
Not the most inspired album, but a decent listening experience.
Highlights:
Precious and Grace
Master of Sparks
Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers
Steely Dan
2/5
5/10
Who is this for? No urgency, just background music.
Michael Jackson
3/5
5.5/10 Michael Jackson at his most annoying but there are bangers on here as well
Highlights:
Smooth Criminal
Leave Me Alone
The Way You Make Me Feel
Black Sabbath
3/5
7/10
Highlights:
Snowblind
Under the Sun
Changes
Wheels of Confusion
Laguna Sunrise
St. Vitus Dance
Orbital
2/5
4.5/10 Repetitiverepetitiverepetitiverepetitiverepetitiverepetitive
The Police
3/5
5.5/10
Highlights:
Message in a Bottle
Walking on the Moon
The Gun Club
3/5
5.5/10
Highlight:
Ghost on the Highway
The Black Crowes
2/5
5/10 meh
Dolly Parton
3/5
5.5/10
Highlights:
Coat of Many Colours
She Never Met a Man
a-ha
3/5
6/10
Highlights:
The Sun Always Shines on TV
Train of Thought
Take on Me
Here I Stand and Face the Rain
James Brown
2/5
4.5/10
3/5
6.5/10
Interesting. At times even enjoyable.
Highlights:
Flow My Tears the Spider Said
Broken Witch
Hold Hands and It Will Happen Anyway
Sheryl Crow
3/5
5.5/10 Decent, but not particularly inspiring
Highlights:
What I Can Do for You
Leaving Las Vegas
Solidify
Amy Winehouse
2/5
5/10
Dolly Parton
2/5
5/10
Kings of Leon
2/5
4/10 Boring, bland, whiny vocals
Anita Baker
2/5
5/10
Jane Weaver
2/5
5/10 The kind of stuff I should like, but I found it boring and obnoxious
Justice
3/5
6.5/10 Exciting, but not always pleasant to listen to. Very strong start, but overstays it's welcome a bit.
Highlights:
Let There Be Light
Genesis
DANCE
Gary Numan
3/5
6/10 Is this really that essential? Kraftwerk was releasing better albums 5 years earlier.
Highlights:
Complex
Engineers
Elvis Presley
2/5
5/10
Mostly covers, and not particularly interesting
Highlight:
Fever
Q-Tip
3/5
5.5/10
Common
2/5
5/10
Beck
3/5
6.5/10
Highlights:
Hell Yes
Rental Car
Broken Drum
E-Pro
Portishead
4/5
7.5/10
It's a mood
Highlights:
Roads
Sour Times
Wandering Star
Glorybox
It's a Fire
FKA twigs
1/5
3/10
That was annoying
The Style Council
3/5
6.5/10
Enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I would. Lots of variation with a lot of instrumental tracks. The political lyrics should be cringe (especially when they are in rap form) but somehow feel earnest and hopeful.
Highlights:
My Ship Came In
The Whole Point of No Return
Headstart for Happiness
A Gospel
Nick Drake
3/5
7/10 Not a fan of his monotonous singing style. That said this is the first time a Nick Drake album really connects with me. The instrumentation is gorgeous. Strong songwriting as well.
Highlights:
Day is Done
River Man
Fruit Tree
Time Has Told Me
Man in a Shed
Duran Duran
2/5
4.5/10 Very annoying, cheesy lyrics, metallic sound.
Highlight:
Save a Prayer
Bad Brains
2/5
5/10
I like the part where he goes umehrtdjajbshipidi faaah jistjsitamatoorah and then adds a michael jackson imitation. Inspiring
3/5
6/10 Interesting ideas but it doesn't quite come together.
Highlights:
Greenman
Easter Theatre
Your Dictionary
Frivolous Tonight
JAY Z
3/5
5.5/10
Lyrics don't connect to me at all (as is often the case for hip hop), but the beats and production are excellent
Highlights:
Renegade
Takeover
Izzo
3/5
7/10
I really wanted to give this 4 stars, but the second half is just not nearly as good as the first half.
Highlights:
For Tomorrow
Colin Zeal
Blue Jeans
Chemical World
Advert
Lana Del Rey
2/5
4/10 Exhausting
Paul Simon
3/5
5.5/10
U2
3/5
5.5/10
Maybe I don't like U2 after all
Highlights:
One
Sabu
1/5
3/10
Country Joe & The Fish
3/5
5.5/10
Dr. Octagon
2/5
5/10 Its certainly different and interesting, but the lyrics are just so bad.
Dexys Midnight Runners
3/5
7/10 Liked this a lot better than I expected based on the previous Dexys album I listened to. The horns are great. The poem is way too pretentious for me.
Highlights:
Burn it Down
There There My Dear
Tell Me When My Lights Turn Green
Im Just Looking
Mike Ladd
2/5
3.5/10
A Tribe Called Quest
2/5
5/10 Decent lyrics, good vibes, but the music is just so repetitive. I can see why people like this, but I didn't enjoy listening.
Simply Red
1/5
3/10
What have they done to my beloved Talking Heads!? The absolute monsters...
The Velvet Underground
3/5
5.5/10 At least it was interesting.
Black Flag
3/5
6/10 Quite angry, but not sure what its directed at
Highlights:
Damaged I
No More
Damaged II
Life of Pain
Rise Above
Britney Spears
2/5
4.5/10
I still prefer swedish factory product over anything made by AI.
Starts strong, but after the first three songs it collapses.
Highlight: Baby One More Time
Aerosmith
3/5
6/10
G. Love & Special Sauce
1/5
3/10
Special sauce smells off
Ride
4/5
7.5/10 The songs individually aren't the greatest, but it's really consistent with no duds and I really liked the overall experience. The vocals are very flat. The melodies are amazing though.
Highlights:
Decay
Dreams Burn Down
Paralysed
Seagull
Vapour Trail
Polar Bear
Kaleidoscope
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
3/5
6/10
Highlights:
Tarkus
A Time and a Place
Queen
5/5
9/10 It's not the most coherent album. So many musical plot twists the plot sometimes gets lost. However it keeps you interested from beginning to end. The highs are very high, while the lows are still pretty good. Weird, but decent and engaging. There's so much energy and creativity here.
(Also I'm not a car enthusiast, but I still think I'm in a love with a car is a banger and surprisingly wholesome)
Highlights:
Bohemian Rhapsody
Death on Two Legs
The Prophet's Song
I'm in Love with My Car
'39
Good Company
Seaside Rendezvous
Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon
Beth Orton
3/5
5.5/10 Hard to really have an opinion about this one
Highlights:
Blood Red River
Stolen Car
David Crosby
2/5
5/10
If I Could Only Remember This Album
The Smashing Pumpkins
4/5
7.5/10
Difficult one. You need to have a lot to say to justify an album this long and while Smashing Pumpkins do have plenty to say, is it really enough? I don't know. I'm not entirely convinced. It did enjoy most of it though. Each half as a separate album would have gotten 4 stars and the first side would even lean towards 5. It's edgy but there are loads of beautiful melodies and the orchestration is top notch for a rock album. The voice I don't particularly mind. So a hesitant 4 stars from me, but I don't want to hear any more Smashing Pumpkins for at least a couple months.
Highlights:
Tonight, Tonight
Bullet with Butterfly Wings
Thru the Eyes of Ruby
Galapogos
Zero
To Forgive
Stumbleine
Here is No Why
Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
1979
Bodies
Korn
2/5
3.5/10 Lyrics are shit and the scatting is awful, but unfortunately I enjoy the music enough to not give it the rating it probably deserves.
The Stone Roses
3/5
6.5/10 I used to strongly dislike the Stone Roses. Not entirely sure why. Maybe it was the lack of musical ambition in favour of being cool? I don't know, but listening to this now I actually quite like it
Highlights:
I am the Resurrection
Made of Stone
This is the One
I Wanna Be Adored
Death In Vegas
3/5
5.5/10
Highlight:
Dirge
Grateful Dead
2/5
4/10
Funkadelic
3/5
7/10
Highlights:
Who Says a Funk Band Can't Play Rock
Groovallegiance
One Nation under a Groove
Mekons
3/5
7/10
The best terrible album on the list. Sounds like a parody of something but it was different and interesting and I enjoyed it.
Highlights:
Trouble Down South
Psycho Cupid
Last Dance
Chivalry
Burning Spear
3/5
5.5/10
3/5
6/10 The ideas are there but too often it doesnt really go anywhere. That said, I needed a couple listens, but it did grow on me
Highlights:
Nature's way
Mr Skin
Soldier
Morning Will Come
Richard Thompson
3/5
6/10 Wow some of these lyrics are bleak. I like the melancholy songs, but overall pretty boring.
Highlights:
The End of the Rainbow
The Calvary Cross
John Martyn
2/5
4/10
Bobby Womack
3/5
6/10
Not sure it really delivers on the title, but the music was fun enough
Highlights:
Stand Up
So Many Sides of You
Beatles
4/5
7.5/10 Beatles albums tend to be a bit hit and miss, and there are definitely some stinkers on here (especially Maxwells Silver Hammer and Oh Darling), but theres no lack of creativity here and the second half is really strong
Highlights:
Here Comes the Sun
Because
Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End
You Never Give Me Your Money
Something
Robbie Williams
3/5
5.5/10 generic Britpop.
Highlight: Let Me Entertain You
Lauryn Hill
2/5
5/10 Disappointing. Musically boring and repetitive. Obviously the lyrics are strong, but they didn't particularly connect for me.
The Young Gods
2/5
5/10 Wanted to like this, and to be honest I might have, but the vocals kinda ruined it for me. Still glad to have heard it.
Highlights:
Pas mal
Rue des tempêtes
Megadeth
3/5
7/10
The music is tight, but the singer sounds like a 16 year old kid. Would have greatly preferred this as an instrumental album.
Highlights:
Hangar 18
Five Magics
Poison was the Cure
Paul Revere & The Raiders
3/5
5.5/10 At time of writing, not only does this album have a perfect 3,00 stars it's also the third most uncontroversial album on the site. I can see why that is. Sixty years after its released it has become an unremarkable album.
Highlights:
I'm Not Your Stepping Stone
Take a Look at Yourself
Tom Waits
4/5
7.5/10
Didn't think I would like this, but apart from being intriguing and strange it was also sometimes surprisingly moving. Don't want to listen to this more than once a year I guess.
Highlights:
Black Wings
Dirt in the Ground
Whistle Down the Wind
The Earth Died Screaming
I Don't Wanna Grow Up
Carpenters
2/5
5/10 This album gave me diabetes
Elton John
4/5
7.5/10 Amazing intro. I love the energy of this album. It is a bit long though
Highlights:
Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Saturday Night's Alright
All the Girls Love Alice
Candle in the Wind
I've Seen That Movie Too
The Crusaders
1/5
3/10 This made me angry
AC/DC
2/5
5/10
Riffs weren't even that catchy
The Who
3/5
5.5/10 I really hoped this would be better than it was. The story makes no sense. The uncle parts are a particular low point. Three stars for the ambition and for the top2000 tune.
Highlights:
Overture
Pinball Wizars
We're Not Gonna Take It
Go to the Mirror!
Beach House
3/5
5.5/10
Thundercat
2/5
5/10
Roxy Music
3/5
6/10 Not a major fan of the Roxy Music sound, although they do have some very good songs. These aren't on here unfortunately.
Highlights:
Out of the Blue
Bitter Sweet
Slade
2/5
4.5/10 Diz iz stoopid
Barry Adamson
3/5
6.5/10
Ananda Shankar
3/5
6.5/10
Not something Id usually listen to but I enjoyed it and I think the list should have more stuff like this.
Highlight:
Snow Flower
Sonic Youth
3/5
7/10 Like with the previous Sonic Youth album an overall enjoyable experience but the songs dont really stand out
Highlights:
Schizophrenia
Stereo Sanctity
Cotton Crown
Radiohead
5/5
9/10
Controversial opinion, but I like this much, much more than Kid A. It's somehow both more adventurous and varied, and yet more accessible. Not as abstract maybe, but considerably more pleasant to listen to, while still being unique and interesting. Like every Radiohead album there's plenty of melancholy here, but it isn't quite as bleak and cold as Kid A. It's almost even kind of fun at some points.
Highlights:
Life in a Glasshouse
Pyramid Song
Knives Out
You and Whose Army?
Like Spinning Plates
Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box
Dollars and Cents
Travis
3/5
5.5/10
Coldplay did it better
M.I.A.
3/5
7/10
Enjoyed this more than expected. It almost feels like a punk album somehow. Very high energy
Highlights:
Jimmy
Paper Planes
Merle Haggard
2/5
3.5/10
Supergrass
3/5
6.5/10 Energetic and surprisingly diverse. It was a good listen, but I didn't really emotionally connect to the songs.
Highlights:
Caught by the Fuzz
Strange Ones
Hüsker Dü
2/5
5/10 I have no feelings about this album.
Highlights:
She Floated Away
Ice Cold Ice
The Jam
3/5
6.5/10
Musically its just not that interesting, but I enjoyed it regardless. Extra points for the social commentary, especially on the final track.
Highlights:
Pretty Green
Set the House Ablaze
Scrape Away
That's Entertainment
Tito Puente
3/5
5.5/10
Highlight:
Hong Kong Mambo
The Human League
3/5
7/10
Highlights:
Do or Die
I Am the Law
The Sonics
3/5
6/10
The Who
3/5
6/10
Highlight:
I Can See for Miles
Odorono
Judas Priest
3/5
7/10
Great fun. Breaking the law is an absolute banger. Surprisingly good production too. I could do with some more beautiful melodies and nice harmonies though. United and Red, White and Blue are way too cheezy for me. Iron Maiden did it better.
Highlights:
Breaking the Law
The Rage
Metal Gods
The Darkness
3/5
7/10 I somehow expected a band called the darkness to make music thats a bit eeh darker. I don't know what to make of this. The lyrics are very silly. Its fun and competent and I usually enjoy stuff thats a bit over the top, but the songs dont really do it for me.
Highlights:
Get Your Hands Off My Woman
Growing On Me
Love is Only a Feeling
Holding My Own
Ute Lemper
3/5
6/10
Its interesting, different from a lot of stuff here and pleasant to listen to. I like how over the top it is. But it's missing memorable songs.
The Mothers Of Invention
3/5
6/10 Are we really sure Zappa disapproved of drugs?
Highlights:
Trouble Every Day
You're Probably Wondering Why Im Here
Stan Getz
3/5
5.5/10
Belle & Sebastian
2/5
5/10
Pleasant background music but should not be on the list.
Leonard Cohen
3/5
6/10
His voice is more suited for anger and cynicism than melancholy. I prefer his later works as a result.
Highlight:
Avalanche
Incubus
2/5
This album is not a breeze. Cause it blows hard.
(Kidding, its alright. Just not very interesting.)
5/10
Paul McCartney
2/5
4.5/10
Disappointing. I dont usually mind shorter albums because they are often more focused, but then youre not supposed to fill them with intermezzos and unfinished ideas. Here its clear that, very surprisingly, McCartney just didnt have enough material for an album. Bold choice to release it anyway, since presumably after the Beatles youd want to come out of the gate swinging. There just isn't much here, which left me feeling empty.
Brian Wilson
3/5
6/10
Some great songs (if not always in their best version), some nice compositions, but also a lot of pointless filler.
Highlights:
Surf's Up
Good Vibrations
Heroes and Villains/Roll Plymouth Rock
D'Angelo
2/5
3.5/10
Brian Eno
4/5
7.5/10 As with previous Eno albums I still struggle to connect emotionally to the songs. However, other than that it does tick all the boxes for me. It's diverse, with the first half being quirky and exciting (the Talking Heads vibes are cool) and the second half atmospheric and feeling more like a journey through various musical landscapes. The production is amazing.
Highlights:
Backwater
Spider and I
King's Lead Hat
Through Hollow Lands
My Bloody Valentine
3/5
7/10 Lots of hooks, but no songs.
Highlights:
Soon
When You Sleep
Ghostface Killah
3/5
6/10 The previous album by a wu tang clan member I got on this list still tops my list for the worst albusm so far (505 albums in), so I didn't have high expectations coming in.
However, this one surprised me. It's not at all bad actually. It's still too long, the lyrics still contain a bit too much of the same hiphop cliches (and I care more for music than for lyrics anyway which is one of the reasons hiphop isnt generally my cup of tea), but the storytelling is better than most and the beats were fun and very listenable.
Highlights:
Shakey Dog
Underwater
50 Cent
2/5
5/10
Long and repetitive. Nice beats/production though.
I don't mind violence/murder as a subject matter, but constantly glorifying and bragging about it does get kinda obnoxious real quick.
Highlight:
Patiently Waiting
What Up Gangsta
The Stooges
3/5
5.5/10
I'm all for separating the art from the artist (otherwise half of the albums on here would have to be 1/5), but knowing Mr. Pop was having sex with 13 year olds at the time does make some of these lyrics appear a lot more cringe.
Steve Earle
2/5
5/10
Got a beer in my beer and a Chevy in my truck
Goldie
1/5
2.5/10
I feel empty
The Verve
3/5
6.5/10
Highlights:
A New Decade
History
This is Music
Brainstorm Interlude
Julian Cope
2/5
5/10
There were some decent moments, but its all over the place, incoherent and way too long.
Highlights:
Safesurfer
Bee Gees
2/5
3.5/10
Cocteau Twins
5/5
9/10
Most surprising 5 stars for me so far. I wasn't really familiar with Cocteau Twins before. The lyrics are unintelligible and the songs are hard to distinguish from each other, but I was blown away by the atmosphere, the production, the super bright and shiny vocals. Human voice is really used as an instrument here. It's mesmerising and addictive. Also super consistent, there aren't any skips.
Highlights:
Fifty-fifty Clown
I Wear your Ring
Iceblink Luck
Heaven or Las Vegas
Frou-frou Foxes in Midsummer Fires
Wolf in the Breast
Cherry-coloured Funk
David Bowie
3/5
7/10 Tough one. The title track is one of Bowie's best works. I love the buildup and the manic energy. The rest of the album is kinda mid.
Highlights:
Station to Station
TVC15
Manic Street Preachers
3/5
7/10
Highlights:
A Design for Life
Everything Must Go
Removables
Enola/Alone
Culture Club
3/5
5.5/10
It's fun I suppose but also kinda cheesy.
Highlights:
Karma Chameleon
Fairport Convention
3/5
6.5/10
Highlights:
Matty Groves
Come All Ye
The Deserter
New Order
3/5
7/10
Short and sweet. I like the overall sound, but there aren't really any stand out songs.
Highlights:
Dream Attack
Vanishing Point
All the Way
Love Less
Magazine
4/5
7.5/10
It has the edge and rawness (and questionable singing skills) of punk, but with a lot more expanded sound and rich instrumentation. Its a bit spooky and a bit weird. The lyrics are witty. Very much my cup of tea.
Highlights:
Shot by Both Sides
Definitive Gaze
Motorcade
The Light Pours Out of Me
Burst
Earth, Wind & Fire
3/5
5.5/10
Highlights:
Yearnin'Learnin'
Shining Star
Pearl Jam
5/5
9.5/10 Was tempted to let this be my first 10/10 (522 albums in), but really it should've just been called Nineandahalf
No doubt Eddie Vedders singing style is an invitation for parody, but there's no denying the power of his voice, for example on a track like Why Go (I love the effect on the line "*SHE* seems to be stronger") and it really fits the music well. As others have mentioned the lyrical themes may be dark, but there is a certain warmth about the album, despite the bleak stories being told. It's not as cynical as Nirvana.
Pearl Jam isn't too cool to add musical flourishes or write beautiful melodies (Black, Porch and Jeremy stand out in that regard). The album is dense and super tight. Every track is worth listening, even if the energy fades away a bit near the end. It's a near perfect heavy rock album.
Highlights:
Jeremy
Why Go
Black
Alive
Porch
Once
Even Flow
Garden
Dr. Dre
1/5
3/10
Pfft. We done?
Holger Czukay
3/5
7/10
Interesting and a bit weird, but still pretty listenable. I enjoy getting discoveries like this from the list.
CHVRCHES
5/5
9/10
Addictive and fun album. Sparkling synth melodies and bright vocals. Euphoria mixed with melancholy. Banger after banger.
Highlights:
The Mother We Share
Lies
Tether
Gun
We Sink
Recover
Science/Visions
Under the Tide (even though the guy cant sing, the ending is still fantastic)
Lungs